Tasha's Question 4 Answer

Question 4- Audience

Who would be the audience for your media product? 

Our audience are 17 - 25 year old males and females.

To appeal to this audience we have used actors who are in this age range so that the issues and topics portrayed are more realistic. We also felt that in terms of our storyline the audience will be able to relate to the situations the characters go through. As well as being able to sympathize and also emphasize with the feelings and emotions the characters express.

The reason why we have chosen an audience of this age group is due to the fact that the dilemmas and circumstances that our characters face our mainly centred around relationship issues which children of a younger age would most likely be too young to understand and emphasize with.

The certification of our opening-

To appeal to our target audience, we wanted to be able to show as much of the action as possible without having to censor too much out. As this would affect the films narrative and therefore be structured around the certification rather than trying to meet the conventions of a thriller genre. So, after looking at the British Board of Film Classification's, we felt that a 15 certificate would be more suited to our opening as some scenes do contain strong violence but not in really close depth or for very long. The scenes of violence aren’t prolonged for very long. Similar with the scene with the drug being added to the drink, this is briefly shown as a flashback. In conclusion, our film is rated at a 15 as we felt the brief for this certificate is appropriate for this type of audience as our thriller meets the expectations for this.

What a 15 rated film will include-

A film rated 15 may include strong violence ("it should not dwell on the infliction of pain or injury, however, and the strongest gory images are unlikely to be acceptable"), drug taking, strong threat or horror (though not a "sustained focus").